168 Quotes by Richard Louv

Some kids don’t want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

On average, the greener a girl’s view from home, the better she concentrates, the less she acts impulsively, and the longer she can delay gratification.

We tend to block off many of our senses when we’re staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

An environment-based education movement – at all levels of education – will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

Roszak argued that modern psychology has split the inner life from the outer life, and that we have repressed our “ecological unconscious” that provides “our connection to our evolution on earth.

Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it’s not wholesale.

Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children’s lives.

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There’s not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.